July 2013"SANA, Yemen — I LEARNED that my 16-year-old grandson, Abdulrahman — a United States citizen — had been killed by an American drone strike from news reports the morning after...
October 2011In a lacerating decision that accused Mayor Bloomberg of willfully ignoring the racial imbalance in the NY Fire Department, a federal judge ruled that a court-appointed monitor would be installed to...
January 20, 2023...For the second lawsuit, Diamond teamed up with the Center for Constitutional Rights and is seeking damages. The trial is expected to begin in Macon on January 19. Diamond’s second trial comes at a...
CCR is pleased to participate in the Students for Liberty New York City Regional Conference. CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will speak on their Civil Liberties Panel about NYPD Stop and...
Updated: October 26, 2012
July 27, 2023..."This legislation is unique and particularly powerful because it includes all federal carceral facilities, including immigration detention centers," said CJ Sandley, a staff attorney at the Center...
The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) is a national coalition of hundreds of groups working for freedom, justice, and equality, and one of the oldest and largest Palestine solidarity...
Updated: January 22, 2024
March 2013In one of the most significant courtroom tests of a key Bloomberg administration policy, a federal judge will begin hearing testimony on Monday in a trial to determine whether the New York Police...
October 13, 2015The NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities in New Jersey evokes memories of Japanese internment camps and spying on protesters during the Civil Rights Movement, an appeals court ruled Tuesday,...
January 21, 2018..."As an advocate who's been working on this issue for years, that's really the question we want people to ask: who are these people at Guantanamo?" said Aliya Hussain, a human rights advocate at...
July 25, 2019...The court's decision would save lives, added Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which joined the ACLU in the lawsuit. “The court correctly decided that decades of US asylum law...
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